Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Favorable reports were maac in the Senate, on the 29th ult., on resolutions to loan flags to the city of Charlotte, N. C., for celebrating the Mecklenburg declaration of independence, and t» the fair at Richmond in aid ej disabled Confederate soldiers, but thr committee will recommend no more legislation of this sort. A joint resolution was favorably reported to appropriate 125,000 to celebrate the completion of the Washington monument. A resolution was offered directing the preparation of a bill to provide that hereafter no patent shall be granted except to citipnw of the United States. The pleuro-pnen-monia bill was debated at great length and passed. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution directing the President to enforce an immediate settlement of the claim of E. Wheelock against the Government of Venezuela for tortures inflicted by officers of that republic. The tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole, and Mr. Hiscocfc spoke in opposition thereto. He instituted a comparison between the condition of the business of the country prior to the tariff of JB6l and its condition at the present time, and from the comparison deduced the conclusion that the protective system was a better one for the people. Agricultural products, he maintained, secured'a higher price now than twenty years ago—a result which was attributable to protection. Mr. Hnrd supported the measure in « spe- ch which attracted the attention of every member. H-e held that, subject to the needs of the Government, every man had the right to buy where goods were cheapest and sell where he "could realize the highest price. He claimed that the protective svstem had locked the United States out of the markets of the world ; he urged that onr manufacturers look outward across the seas for patrons, and closed by saying that if the Ohio Democratic platform would net allow the abolition of war t xes, he would apical to the people of Ms native State to re* pudiate the heresy. The passage of bills to authorize the Oregon Central Road to bridge the Willamette River, and to ratify the agreement with three Indian tribes of Montana for a portion of their reservation required by the Northern Pacific Road, followed by a long debate on the shipping bill, constituted the business of the Hemte on the 80th ult. In the House a bill was reported *o secure postal telegraphy on the contract system. A joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of War, on proper .application, to loan tents "and flags for soldiers’ reunions and to grant condemned monumental purposes. Alter which the .tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole and discussed at great length. Mr. Dingley (Rep.), of Maine, uenied tnat protection had caused the decline in American commerce. Mr. Hewitt (Dem.i. ot New York, declared that there was stagnation everywere in the protected industries. The wages of American workmen were not sufficient to give them even decent support, and during the last twenty years their progress had been downward. In the iron works last year twothirds were in blast, while this year nearly twothirds were dosed an I the wages of the army of workers were reduced. He was one of the unfortuna e manufacturers who had reduced w ages rather than turn ids men out altogether. Mr. Kt-Lley (Bep.i of Pennsylvania, interrupted to say he thanked Mr. Hewitt for indoising bis doctrix*. Production had so iar out■ron consumption that a readjustment of labor and capital would have to be made. Mr. Hewitt declared that protection would not prevent over-production, but on the contrary created that lamentable condition of affairs. Nothing could be done with the surplus but lite It up as long as money lasted and then stop and let the workmen starve. Trades -unions were all the protection workingmen needed. Under the present tariff these unions could not but be feeble and finally die. He held that the condition of English workmen had steadily improved since the era of free trade. He believed the tariff would have to go, but the progress should be gradual. He would begin by putting raw materials on the tree list; then he would limit tho rates of duties. If these moves turned out badly be would pause; If not, he would go on to the very end. Mr. Warner (Democrat), of Ohio, held that the Morrison bill was not in harmomy with the Ohio platform. That was bomb-proof, and would win all the time. Mr. Cntcheon (Rep.), of Mich gan, opposed the bill as to- ing wrong in principle, unscientific in construction, hurtful In tendencies, and destructive in its effects. It was neither protection, tree t ade, nor revenue only. It was protection with a free trade slash twenty inches wide through it/ It was a monster, shapeless, lame, and blind. The oountry wanted a tariff not for revenue, not for protection, but for revenue and protection, one and inseparable. Whek the shipping bill came up in the Sen-

ate on the Ist Inst., Mr. Frye asserted that the admission to American registry of vessels bought abroad would take from American ships the coastwise trade of the United States, bringing in all the old hulks of England. Mr. Vest retorted that the last, thing in the range of imagination i« the idea that any human being can cht at a Yankee. The Senate agreed to indefinitely postpone action on the bill to release the members of the original Fitz-John Porter court-martial from the obligation of secrecy. Bills were favorably reported to aid the construction of a ship canal between Lake Union and Puget Sound, Washing; on Territory, and to amend act relating to the impertation of spurious teas. In the House Mr. Dorsheimer spoke against the tariff biil. Mr. Eaton declared the measure directly opposed to the Constitution, and he would do his utmost to defeat it. Mr. Hammond insisted that the Democrats were earnest in their purpose to reduce taxation and diminish the revenue. Mr. Ftnertv opposed the measure in a speech of considerable length. A resolution' was adoped by the Senate, •on the 2d inst, calling on the Secretary of tho Interior for information as to what action had ibeen taken In regard to the entries of public lands in Colorado by the Estes Park Company *nd other English corporations. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Territories, made an Adverse report on the House bill providing that mo person shall be appointed Governor of a Territory unless he has been for two years a resident thereof, because no such limitation can be placed on the constitutional power of the President. During the discussing on the shipping bill Mr. Vest offered an amendment to admit sfhip-building material free of duty and to place vessels purchased abroad on the American register. No action was taken. Adjourned till the 6th. The House devoted the entire day’s session to debate on the tariff bill. Mr. Nutting (Bep.) deprecated the agitation of the matter lor purely political reasons. Mr. Deuster (Dem.) game notice of an amendment he proposed to offer provided that after July 1 no duty should be levied on any kind of raw material. He depicted the advantages following such a course, and advocated the abolition of the duty on wool as a measuvo of benefit to both manufacturers and farmers. Mr. McMullen (Hep.l denounced the present tariff as a monstrous piece of Injustice. He declared that it had destroyed commerce, cut down the sales of American manufacturers, and depleted the revenues of American agriculture. In conclusion he pictured the dangers of aD overflowing Tteasury, which led thieves to devise every means from larceny to legislative robbery to get their hands into the public money. Mr. Miller (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, declared that the pro ectivc system had been tried, and had inured to the benefit of every class of Industry. Mri Cox (Dem.), of New York, argued in favor of throwing open the markets of the world to American industries. He believed in commerce and progress. not in exclusion, stagnation and starvation. In conclusion he expressed surprise that Mr. Finerty should oppose the frec-ship amendment to the shipping bill, and thus give England and other foreign countries l!40,o(m,ou0 in fares and freightage which should go to America. Mr. Smlnger (Dem.) gave the lii-lorv of the Tariff Commission, and quoted from ts report to show that the interests of the country demanded a reduction of Ou per cent. The tariff bill had only reduced duties 5,«:i per cent. A reduction of revenue to the extent of at $50,000,000 was imperatively demanded. He denied that American workingmen were protecied against foreign labor by the present high tariff. Protection was of advantage only to the manufacturers. It left the laborers to fight and starve. The Democrats intended to go before the country on this issue, and he ielt sur ■ the Seople would favor the reform now advocated y the Democratic party. There wns no session or the Senate on the 3d inst. Tho House, after prolonged debate passed the bill amending the Chinese immigration act by a vote of 184 to 13. Mr. Henley argued that the measure received unanimous indorsement In tho Pacific States and Territories. Mr. Rice showed that a Chinese merchant in San Francisco gnvc $3,000 to the Garfield Hospital fund, and Mr. Bndd retaliated by a remark that the Chinese sold their daughters for the vilest purposes. Mr. Hitt contended that the present

law had nearly stopped immigration from China, and that further radical legislation is not necessary.

EASTERN.

A pale on Lake Champlain injured the piers at Burlington for two miles, causing a damage of SIOO,OOO. Fitzgerald won the 6ix days’ walking match in New York, making 610 miles to Rowell's 602. He was presented with a silver goblet lined with gold. About five thousand persons witnessed the finish. Judge Thayer, in Common Pleas Court No. 4, at Philadelphia, admitted Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore to practice, notwithstanding the other Common Pleas Courts had refused to admit her. At Gouverneur, N. Y., a boiler explosion in Whitney's marble works killed five men and fatally injured two others. Forest fires in the Catskill Mountain region of New Y T ork and the Blue mountains of Pennsylvania have - done vast damage. Near Ashland, in the latter State, a tract of fifty square miles of timber was burned over. The village of Gilman’s Depot, on the Port Jarvis Road, in New York, was wiped out by flames. In the vicinity of Elkton, Md., thousands of acres of valuable timber were destroyed. The towns of Brisbiu and Thompson, in Tioga County, Pa., were swept away by the flames, the inhabitants being compelled to flee for their lives. The thriving town of Houtzdale, Pa., also fell a victim to the flames, scarcely a house being left, and the destitute citizens have sent out an appeal for help. The damage wrought by these forest fires will amount to many millions of dollars.

WESTERN.

The poor-house of Van Buren County, Michigan, with forty-five inmates, took fire at 2 o'clock in the morning. Fourteen inmates were smothered in their beds or were burned alive. Only one body could be recognized. Lucia Zarate, the Mexican midget, while left alone for a moment in a museum at Cleveland, was carried off by two men, who dropped her when they found themselves pursued. In broad daylight, four men rode to the Medicine Valley Bank, located in the heart of the town of Medicine Lodge, Kan., and, dismounting, two went in while the others took care of the horses outside. Cashier George Geppert and President E. W. Payne, of the bank, were the only persons in at the time. The two bandits, presenting their Winchester rifles and revolvers, said: “Give us your money or we will kill you.” Geppert and Payne refused, and instantly the robbers shot them, killing Geppert and Injuring Payne fatally. The firing aroused the town and brought the Marshal and others to tho spot, and the robbers, hastily mounting their horses, fled. Mr. Geppert was a prominent business-man, while Mr. Payne was the editor of the Index, and a wealthy and influential stockman. The Union Pacific shops at Omaha were closed the other day through a strike of employes generally, save those in headquarters and the engineers and firemen. No attempt was made to move freight. In the evening a bulletin from the General Manager was posted withdrawing the notice of a reduction in wages, and work was immediately resumed at the old rates.

The four Medicine Lodge (Kan.) robbers were captured and imprisoned. A mob broke Into the jail, shot one of the bandits dead, and took the other three out and hanged them. A Kansas City telegram gives this account of the affair: Swift retribution has overtaken the Medicine Lodge murderers and robbers. The posse in pursuit came up with the robbers three miles from town, captured them, after a brief struggle, brought the prisoners back to town, and lodged them In the calaboose. A crowd gathered and attacked the building. One of the robbers opened fire, whereupon the crowd riddled him with bullets. The remaining three were taken out, conducted to the edge of the town, and hung. The excitement of the crowd was intense, and they refused to listen to the officers, who endeavored to quiet them. One of the prisoners begged for mercy, but the othors died game. The excitement increased when it was found that two of the robbers were Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler, Marshal and Assistant Marshal or Caldwell. The other two, John Wesley and Billy Smith, were cowboys.

Waterloo (Iowa) dispatch: “Atriple tragedy occurred at Roland, a small place In the edge of Story County, about thirteen miles south of Radcliffe. A man, whose name it Is impossible to learn, attacked his wife with an ax.. She defended herself as well as she could, at the same time calling for help. The brother of the infuriated husband interfered, and attempted to protect the woman. At this the husband, who is a burly man, seized his brother and threw him into a deep well. As he did this he either lost his footing or sprang into the well intentionally himself. When the neighbors, attracted by the outcry, arrived on the scene they found the two men at the bottom of the well, both dead, while the woman was unconscious. She is badly wounded, and at last reports it is thought that there is no possibility of her recovering.” James Maxwell, of Harrisonville, Mo., killed his brother-in-law, John Lofforn, with a Bhot>gun as he sat on a bed undressing. The victim’s wife had a suspicion as to the murderer’s identify, and remained in the house alone all night with the corpse before giving information of the deed.

WASHINGTON.

The indictment of William Pitt Kellogg, says a Washington dispatch, has been thrown out of court and a verdict of acquittal rendered by tho jury; and, to crown all, the indictment against Price has been nolle prossed. The history of this last case Is the history of the greatest fiasco of the series of star-route trials. The House Military Committee has agreed on a favorable report on the bill to erect a soldiers’ home in M ichlgan at a cost of 8250,000. In the election contest between English and Peeie, for a seat in Congress from Indiana, the committee has agreed co report in favor of the former. For several days past, says a Washington telegram, an artist lias been employed at the Capitol repairing the damage to the various statues and works of art done by relic-hunters. On one statue a finger had to be supplied, on another a toe, and some irreverent vandal even stole a pieco of the

marble which represents the Father of his Country. Tho following is a recapitulation of the regular monthly debt statement Issued ou the Ist Inst.: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $ 250,000.000 Four per cents „ 737.657,‘>50 Three per oente 264.621,950 Refunding certificates 298.450 Navy pension fnnd 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,266,572,350 Matured debt ..$ 12,123,405 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,739.521 Certificates of deposit 15,u25,0(w' Gold and silver certificates 217,490,431 Fractional currency 6.583.107 Total without Interest $ 586.238,089 Total debt (principal) $1,854,938,814 Total Interest 8,845,125 Total cash in Treasury 399,753,205 Debt, less cash in Treasury 1,464,030,733 Decrease during April 5,232,075 Decrease of debt since Jane 30, 188 A 87,060,473 Current liabilitiesinterest due and nnpald $ 2,142,7091 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 12,128,405 Interest thereon 313,686 Gold and silver certificates 217,490,431 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 15,025,000 Cash balance available 152,652,973 $ 399,753,205 Available assets— Cash m Treasury $ 399.753,205 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstanding $ 64,623,312 laterest accrued, not yet Dald. 1,292,470' Interest paid by United States 61,160,798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service.. $ 18/T2.840 By cash payments, 5 pier cent, nst earnings. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 42.492,759

POLITICAL.

The Chicago Times (Independent Dem.) prints what it calls a “ carefully pre pared summary,” showing the complexion of the delegates chosen to the National Republican Convention from all the States and Territories, which shows the following result (411 votes being necessary to a choice): Blaine 324 John Sherman 23 Arthur 200 Hawley 12 Edmunds 79,Doubtful 40 Logan 50i The Chicago Daily News (Arthur Republican) places the figures somewhat different from the Times, viz.: Arthur 3371 Logan 42 Blaine 271,The field 42 Edmunds 1071 In the New York Assembly in Albany the bill adding an article to the State constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors was lost—6o against 63. The Nebraska Republican State Convention, which "met at Lincoln, organized by electing Congressman E. K. Valentine Chairman. The following were e lected delegates ablarge to Chicago: John M. Thurston, N. S. Harwood, John Jansen, and N. S. Brooks. They are all said to bo for Blaine. A resolution to Instruct for Blaine was tabled by a vote or 220 to 207. The platform declares for the taxation of such home products as are luxuries and for a tariff that will protect home industries without being burdensome to the people. The national convention is requested to provide that in future representation at national, conventions shall bo In proportion to the number of Republican votes casl for President In the last preceding Presidential election. The resolutions close with an indorsement of President Arthur’s policy. At the Montana Republican Conven J tion held at Bozeman, Mantle and Sanders were chosen delegates to Chicago, with Leam--ing and Knowles as alternates. Sanders is for Blaine and Mantle for Edmunds. Tho alternates are for Arthur and Edmunds respectively. . The New Mexico Republican Convention elected H. W. Llewllyn and Eugene Ro-' mero delegates to Chicago. There were no instructions, but they are believed to favo» Arthur, with Logan as second choice. Strong resolutions indorsing Arthur’s administration were adopted.

MISCELLANEOUS. William, alias “Reddy” McHugh, was hanged at Cincinnati for the murder of his wife in 1881. Thomas Dickson was hanged at Bloomfield, Mo., for the murder of James McNab near Essex, Stoddard County, that State, four years ago. About lour thousand people wore presnt, Dickson made a brief speech, in which he declared his innocence. Enoch Brown, a negro, was hanged at Halifax Court House, N. C., for the murder of his wife. There was a large crowd of spectators, principally colored people. Wm. Brooks, colored, was executed at Alexandria, La., for wife murder. Jacob Dobson, who shot ex-Sheriff Adkins in Boone County, West Virginia, was lynched at Gr if fithßville, in that State. Under the Crown Land Office, in the Parliament buildings at Toronto, were found two powerful dynamite cartridges, with wire and fuse attached, and others were discovered under the steps approaching the Speaker’s chamber. At a meeting of farmers in Manitoba, resolutions were adopted asking that that country be made an independent British colony, and declaring that if free trade was not accorded they would secede. The iron steamer State of Florida was wrecked at sea about the 27th of April. There is a mystery surrounding her fate. One story is that she was destroyed by dynamiters, another that she was crushed by an iceberg. It is believed that nearly, If not all, of the crew were picked up by a passing steamer. Lieut. Emory telegraphs from St. ( Johns to Secretary Chandler that two whalers have sailed for the arctic regions, in the hope of securing the Greely reward, and two more will soon take their departure., Near Independence, lowa, John Duffy s 13-year-old daughter perished by fire, and his wife and infant child were fatally, burned.

FOREIGN.

In the British House of Commons ■Belford, Lord Advocate for Scotland, announced the Government would shortly introduce a bill creating a Minister for Scotland. It appeals from evidence offered before a duly authorized commission that tho flour furnished the Egyptian army has been adulterated with plaster of paris, that the hay was rotten, and that two-thirds of the mules fhrnished lor transport were useless. Col. Frazer has been summoned to London from Cairo, to give a detailed statement of the condition of the Egyptian army. A revolution is reported as having

broken out in Malaga, Spain, and tne insurgents about Flgueras have been driven across the frontier. The Pope is said to be preparing a fresh note to the powers in regard to the decision of the Italian court, in which he will declare that a compromise with Italy is impossible on the basis of existing laws. The work of unifying the Liberals is meeting with great success in Germany. At a recent national meeting resolutions were adopted in favor of the creation of a party to embrace the entire empire, its object to be the pursuit of patriotic liberalism.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Recent deaths: Ex-Gov. Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey; Thomas Goff, a millionaire distiller of Cincinnati and Aurora, Ind.; Dr. Willard Parker, an eminent surgeon of New York; Gen. Emerson Opdyke, an eminent New York merchant; Sanford B. Hunt, editor of the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser; Prof. 0. M. Conover, Reporter of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; exGov. Henry M. Matthews, of West Virginia; George Caldwell, a prominent Sau Francisco, lawyer; Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M. P., head of the famous English brewing firm; Asa Ayers, of Michigan City, Ind., a veteran of the war of 1813; Gen. Wil* l'am Poynter, of Philadelphia; Baron Raglan, of London, son of the famous Crimean General; Catholic Bishop Toebbe, of the Diocese of Covington, Ky. The grand jury of Copiah County, Mississippi, has indicted E. B. Wheeler for the murder of S. P., or “Print,’' Matthews, in that county last election day. Matthews, it will be remembered, was the leading Republican in Copiah County, and the affair acquired national importance through the Senate Investigating Committee. The grand jury making the indictment was composed entirely of Democrats, including one Democratic negro. A large number of artillery officers and students have been arrested at Moscow and St. Petersburg on a charge of Nihilism. It is thought that some of them were concerned in the assassination of Col.. Sudeikin recently. The mistress of a school for women at St. Petersburg and the Secretary of the Board of Justice have also been taken into custody. A Nihilistic paper published by the students of Moscow University has been suppressed. Friendly relations between France and Morocco have been broken off. A fire on the corner of Atwater and Griswold streets, Detroit, burned the build" ing of the Steam Supply Company and other structures valued at SIOO,OOO. The steamer B. S. Ford, valued at $175,000, was burned at her wharf at Charlestown, Md. Forest fires in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable timber, and extinguished several villages, entailing an estimated loss of $4,000,000. Thirty-one buildings at Gainesville, Fla., were reduced to ashes, causing a loss of $140,000. Other ire losses of the week were as follows:

Losses. Remington, Ind., business property $ 25*1100 East Saginaw, Mich., shingle anil saw mill 40,000 HawkinsvUle, Ga., stores 25,<H)0 Van Wert, Ohio, stave mill 20,r00 Englewood, 111., hotel 10,000 New York City, dry goods store 400,000 Peoria, 111., distillery 10,000 Breckinridge, Minn., stores and shops... 10,000 Montreal, warehouse 30,000 Presque Isle, Me., twenty-four buildings 130,000 Kansas Oity, Mo., livery stable 10,000 Berlin, Ohio, flouring mill 35,000 Baltimore, oyster canning house 40,000 Waco, Texas, warehouse and contents... 60,000 Cincinnati, planing mi l 50,000 Wausau, Wis., machine shop and flour mill CO,OOO Williamsport, Pa., saw mill 20 000 Prairie City, lowa, stores and shops 100,000 Marquette, Mich., hotel 25,000 Morrison, lowa, postottice and other buildings.... 20,000 Shell Rock, lowa, dry goods store lfi.Oi.O Troy, N. Y., five buildings 34,000 Williamstown, N. Y., business property. 75,000 Wichita. Kansas, church, 15,000 Portland, Maine, drug store fO,OOO Edgewood, Pa., private dwelling 30,000 Bradley’s Pond, N. Y., thirty houses 25,000 Mr. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the Senate, on the sth inst., to restrict aliens and foreign corporations in the ownership of public lands, and Mr. Plumb offered a measure to forbid aliens acquiring title to real estate in any Territory or the District of Columbia. A favorable report was made on the House bill granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick. There was an interesting discussion of the shipping bill. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution seating O’Ferrall (Democrat) as a member from Virginia, in place of Paul (Readjuster), and he was sworn in. Bills were introduced 4o exclude the public lands of Arkansas from the operation of the laws relating to mineral lands, and to issue patents for lands to any Pacific road which shall complete its track within thirty days. Objection was made by Mr. Weller to the consideration of a joint resolution appropriating SIO,OOO to defray the expenses of the Siamese Embassy.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 6.50 @ 7.25 Hogs 5.60 @ 6.t0 Flour—Extra 6.25 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 09 @ 1.00*4 No. 2 Red 1.08 @ 1.10 Corn—No. 2 63 @ .66 Oats—White 42 @ .45 Pork—Mess 17.50 @IB.OO Lard os)4@ .09 CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 6.60 @ 7.00 Fair to Good 5.50 @6.00 Common to Medium... 5.00 @5.50 Hogs .• 5.75 @6.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.50 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 8.25 Wheat—No. 2 Suring 91 @ .92 No. 2 Winter 1.03 @ l.i 5 Corn—No. r. 52 @ .53 OATS—No. 2 .31 @ .32 Rye—No. 2 ci @ .63 Barley—No. 2. 73 @ .75 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 @ .23 Fine Dairy .18 @ .20 -•‘OTATOES—Peachbiows 38 @ .40 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ .14 Pork—Mess 16.75 @17.25 Lard 08i4@ .08)4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 .91 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 : 54 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 33 @ ,34'> Barley—No. 2 71 @ .72)4 Pork—Me£s 16.75 @17.25 Lard 8.00 @ 8.50 ST. LOUIR Wheat—No. 2Red... 1.13 @1.15 Corn—Mixed.. 60 @ .51 Oats—No. 2... 34 @ .35 Rye.......... 61 @ .62 Pork—Mess ...17.00 @17.25 Lard 08)4@ .08)4 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Re<. 1.06 @1.09 Corn. .. , 56 @ .57 OatS—Mfied. 7 35 @ .36)4 Pork—Mcbs.. 17.00 @17.50 Lard 08 @ .08)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ 99 Corn—No. 2 * 54 @ .65 Oats—No. 2 : 34 & .35 DETROIT. Flour 6.60 & 700 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—Mixed 55 <aj .67 Oats—No. 2 White 40 @ 41 Pork—Mess 20.00 @20.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—Mixed 62 @ .53 Oats—Mixed 34 @ .35 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4,25 @ 5.25 Fair. m 4.60 Common 3.60 @ 4.00 Hogs. 6.75 @6.25 Sheep 3,50 @ 4.75

A HUMAN HOLOCAUST.

Shocking Occurrence by the Burning of a Michigan County Almshoua. Fourteen of the Pauper Inmates Caught in Their Beds and Entirely Consumed. [Hartford (Mich.) Telegram.] The Van Boren County Poorhonse, situated two and one-half miles east of this village, was burned to the ground this morning. Fourteen paupers were burned to death, and many others narrowly escaped with their lives. (The cause of the fire is unknown. It originated in the inmates’ sitting-room on the first floor, and when discovered was lieyond control The county farm lies midway between the villages of Hartford and Lawrence, three miles from each, and beyond assistance from firemen, bnt when the flames were discovered the buildings were already so involved that help would have been useless. The buildings comprised a large two-story frame upright, with a wing extending east and a two-story addition projecting south from the rear of the main building. The latter was occupied by Superintendent Cash, his family, and the hired help. One of the latter named Halsey was aronsed by the cries of the inmates. Going down the hall he opened the door to the twostory addition, when he was almost overpowered by a volume of flame and smoke that burst out. He had barely time to give the alarm in the Superintendent’s quarters. The paupers in the addition were already past help. The occupants of the front building only escaped with their lives, nothing else being saved bnt two or three articles of furniture. The following are the names of those who perished: Jimmie Johnson, from Covert; Henry Bankes, from Waverly; Benjamin Bogardus, from Breedsville; Thomas Sawyer, colored, from the Kalamazoo asylum; Jonathan Sargent, from Antwerp; Fred Ekenburger, from Decatur; - Myers, from Waverly; Peter Golden, from Keeler; Caroline Lang, from Covert; Caroline Saerer, from Covert; Mrs. Curtis, from Breedsville; Mrs. Wilson and her 8-ye’ar-old daughter; Ann Mana and Debby Cravet, of Bangor. When morning came the ruins presented a sickening sight. The victims of the conflagration, when taken from the ashes and half-con-sumed timbers of the bnilding, were so burned as to be unrecognizable, horrible masses of flesh and bone, impossible to identify, being viewed by hundreds of visitors. The addition contained sleeping accommodations for about twenty, and the only ones who escaped were a boy named Parker, who jumped from the second window, and two little boys of Mrs. Wilson. Their mother and sister perished in the flames. The remainder of the inmates were in a detached bnilding known as “the jail.” .They comprised the idiotic, violently insane, etc. Between that and the main structure there was another detached building, thaj distance sepa ating the two being, perhaps, forty feet, which delayed the progress of the flames till the inmates of “the jail” could be saved. Gne of the occupants of the Superintendent’s quarters was his daughter, just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever. She was saved. The inmates who were lost comprise the better class es paupers, those in a comfortable condition and able to assist abont the premises. The county authorities have made provisions in the neighborhood for the temporary care of the remaining inmates. There were about sixty occupants of the burned buildings. The loss to the county on bnilding and contents is abont $10,0(10, on which there is $5,000 insurance. Mr. Cash the overseer, lost all his goods, to the value of about SBOO, on which there was no Insurance.

PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.

Provisions of the Bill Passed by the United States Senate. As amended and passed by the Senate the pleuro-pneumonla bill providing for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry and the extirpation of contagious cattle diseases provides that the Commissioner of Agriculture shall organize in his department a bureau of animal Industry, with a chief who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon and who shall investigate and report the condition of the domestic animals of the United Btates and the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among them. He shall also collect snch other information on those subjects as may be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the United States. For the purposes of the bureau the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to employ a force not to exceed twenty persons at any one time. The Commissioner Is to appoint two competent agents, who shall be practical stock-raisers or men experienced in commercial transactions affecting five stock, who shall report the best manner of transporting and caring for animals and the means to be adopted to suppress and extirpate pleuropneumonia and other dangerous contagious or communicable diseases. The compensation of such agents is fixed at $lO per day. The commission is to prepare as early as possible such rules and regulations as may be necessary to extirpate the diseases named, and certify such rules, etc., to the executive authority of each State and Territory, and invite the co-operation of such executive authority In the execution of the act of Congress. When the rules, etc., shall have been accepted by such executive authority, the commission may expend in the State so accepting so much money as shall be necessary for the purposes of the investigations contemplated by the act and for such disinfection and quarantine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of disease from, one State or Territory into another. In order to promote the exportation of live-stock, a special investigation shall be made as to the existence of contagions diseases along the dividing line between the United States and foreign countries and along the transportation lines from all parts of the United States to the’ ports from which cattle are exported, and re--ports made to the Secretary of jhe Treasury, who shall co-operate with the State and municipal authorities, corporations, and persons engaged in the transportation of neat cattle by land or water, in establishing regulations foB the safe conveyance of cattle and preventing the spread of dtseaee; and the Secretary of the’ Treasury is authorized to take such steps as may be necessary, not inconsistent with the act, to prevfent the exportation of oattla affected with any contagious disease, especially pleuropneumonia. Transportation companies are forbidden to transport cattle affected with any contagious or communicable disease from one State or Territory to another, but the so-called splenetic or Texas fever is exoepted from the category of communicable diseases so far as regards the transportation of cattle to market. Violations of the act by railroad companies or vessels is declared a misdemeanor on the part of the manager or captain, punishable by a line not to exceed $6,000 or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both. It is made the duty of the United States District Attorneys to prosecute cases. The sum appropriated for the purposes of the act is $160,000 (instead of $250,000 as appropriated by the House).

Railway Construction.

Advance sheets of The Railway Age show the following record of railway construction during the year 1883: We complete this week our detailed statement, by roads, of the new track laid in the United States daring the year 1883. The compilation of these statistics Involves a great amount of correspondence, and it is impossible t» make a complete report at the end of the year. These final figures, however, do not differ very greatly from those given in our issue of Dec, 27, iBB3. At that time we stated the total mileage for the year, so far as reported, at 6,608 miles. This we have since increased by 61 miles, our record now showing the amount of new track laid during 1883 to have been 6,870 miles. The following is our summary, by States: States. Miles.) States. Miles. New England State?— Kentucky 127.6 Maine 41.2) Pacitle Belt— Vermont 22.0 California 231.0 Massachusetts..... 18.0 Oregon 196.3 Connecticut 3.0 Arizona j.. 156.0 Eastern M. States— 1dah0....... 282.0 New York.. 1..... ..399.2 Washington Ty... ,isi.o New Jersey ; 7.5 Missouri Belc-f Pennsylvania 303.6 Minnesota.. 167.5 Middle W. StatesOhio 849.0 Arkansas .198.5 Indiana 180.3 Louisiana 238.1 Michigan, 421.3 Kansas Belt— Illinois 174.7 Dakota.-.rr.-.r-.T»~ ,4i0.8 Wisconsin 218.8 Nebraska <7.199.2 Southern States— Kansas 144.0 Virginia 98.1 Indian Territory... 12,0 North Carolina.... 52.0 Texas 68.5 South Carolina.... 40.5| Colorado Belt— Georgia... 65.5 Colorado 88.8 Florida 245.2 Montana 413.0 Alabama 181.0 New Mexico 81.0 Mississippi 261.1 Utah 160.0 Tennessee 40.0 Work on the Washington monument has been resumed.

“Smile Though He Smite Thee.”

The Rev, Mr. Estwell was devoted his family. He was a very devout and never allowed that seemingly herent duty to neckties and somber waistcoats to interfere with humbler calling of visiting the of poverty, or administering to wants of a suffering wretch. Air. well almost worshiped his little boy,B bright, happy child, with a gush cH warm love and a pretty little habit climbing on the yard fence and his curls at people who passed One day the little fellow was strickeH down with spinal disease. The fatheH who had so often told sorrowing motlH ers and fathers that God knew besH could not help but question the wisdo:H and especially the kindness of suchH visitation. Only a few days when the little Johnson boy died, afteH great suffering, the minister had 6aid iH the heart-broken mother: H “Bear up under your affliction, foH every smile of resignation is registered in heaven with a golden pen. With otH eyes blinded by the dust of .this eartjH we cannot see why the dear little low should have suffered so, but thH Lord, in His divine wisdom, knoviH best. ” ■ “But why did he want my child die a thousand deaths?" mused mother. H “You should not ask such a questkuH Your child is now an angel.” I “But is he any more of an angel f(H suffering so muoh, and dying suchH terrible death?” I “Seek not to investigate the ways <H the Lord. Smile though He smitH thee. ’’ ■ “As the minister sat beside the becH side of his own suffering child, he membered tfiis conversation. “SmilH though He smite thee.” There was nH smile on his face. The golden peH above made him no shining record. HH had not the heart to look at the littfl sufferer, turn to the mother and sajß “Smile though He smite thee.” I The curls that had waved in the smfl light above the fence had lost theH gloss of life, and damp they fell arounl a little face of deathly pallor. Tkl mother leaned over, and tears fell oH the limp hair. I “Pa.” I >l Yes, angel.” I “When will I be well?” ■ “I don’t know, darling.” I “To-morrow?” I “I cannot say. ”' a “Never?” he asked, with strange iofl telligence. ■ “I cannot tell him, ” said the fathel looking into the swollen eyes of hi wife. The mother could not. Hn face sought the pillow, and was buriel with the beautiful hair. The chill quivered and shrieked aloud in agonl “Ob, Jesus,” he said—Jesus, to whol he had been taught to pray—“Oh, jl sus, have mercy on me!” a The minister sprang from the becl side, raised his clutched hand, and el claimed: a “God! Christ! Don’t you hear thl cry ? Oh, that I could batter dowl the gates of heaven and show you th| suffering! Have you no mercy!” a He turned again to the bedside. Thl face was still. An expression of swen content rested upon the features. Thl spirit had flown. The gates had beel opened. The cry was heard. Til father took the mother in his arms, anl whispered: a “Smile though He smite thee.”— Op I P. Head, in Texas Siftings. I

Cozy Furnishing.

The lady of wealth who leaves th arrangement of her house to designe and upholsterer has but faint concep tion of the pleasure of the young house keeper whose limited means make ever piece of furniture a study of fitness an durability. If a sensible little womai she does not attempt to make her mone go too far at first, but buys a limite quantity of the best she can afford, it creasing her collection of househol treasures from time to time, now wit a picture, then an easy chair, a prett table, window drapery, or bit of brio-a brae, and constantly renews her inter est in the tasty but inexpensive belong ings of her modest little home. —Farm Field, and Fireside.

Freeing the Slave.

Although Cuba is within a few hunl dred miles of our Southern coast, verj| little is known about it in this couritryH It will surprise most people to learll that slavery is rapidly disappearinfl from that lovely island. Sixteen yearll ago a law was passed, providing for thfl gradual manumission of slaves in Cubajl of whom there were at that time 385,[1 355. This law has been so well carried I out that 285,000 slaves have already I been set free. In a few years more, oil that island, the “sun will not rise upoif I a master nor set upon a slave.”—Demjl orest's Monthly.

The Hare and the Chipmunk.

“I’m hurried to death,” said the Hare! I when the dogs were after him, to the I Chipmunk, who begged that he woulq I stop and crack a nut of gossip witl I him; “but if you will take mxj place and let me have yours, so that can overlook the country, I’ll stop anq I rest awhile.” “All right,” said the Chipmunk I hopping down from the tree, with a nu| 1 in his mouth. “I’ve always wished to see a March hare. But you are not s very mad one are yon. ” “Oh, no,” replied the Hare, grinning] “I’ve all my wits about me, as you will presently perceive. ” And at that mo 1 ment the dogs burst through the bushes and pounced upon the poor Chipmunk who exclaimed with his last breath) “What a fine thing it is to be smart That gray Hare will .never go down with sorrow to the grave.” —St Nichl olas.

How to Test a Woman’s Temper.

If you are courting a young lady, anc wish before you take her to ascertaii her temper, tear her ball-dress as if b] accident If she keeps her equanimity lose not a moment in popping the “mo mentous question.” She will do, ant you may account yourself a bappy man A breastpin containing an Edisoi. glow light, fed by a small waistcoat pooket battery, is sold for $6 at NUrenl berg, Germajw, |